Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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So compelling are the reasons, in fact, that some missilemen are talking up far more ambitious projects for the future. Among them: firing intercontinental missiles from the Pacific Northwest, from Alaska, and even from Polaris subs in the middle of the Pacific, to the spacious White Sands range.
In the end, the Senate, instead of subtracting money, added $258 million to the House-approved version. Among the items restored after House cuts were $60 million for the Air Force's mobile medium-range ballistic missile, whose range would be somewhere between the Army's 400-mile...
"Can a crazy military idea," mused a British Cabinet minister, "ever make good political sense?" Yes indeed, thinks the Kennedy Administration, which is convinced that the plan for a NATO multilateral Polaris fleet with mixed al lied crews is the only practical way to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance while satisfying...
Though the British endorsed MLF when it was proposed as part of the Nassau pact last December, the government's domestic difficulties have since forced Harold Macmillan to back away from the project at flank speed. Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft objects that the scheme makes no military sense; his...
NASA's abundant cash, distributed by its politically savvy chief, James E. Webb, may keep the moon project in funds in spite of its threatened loss of appeal as a U.S. v. Russia horse race. But when space officials put aside their worries about getting money out of Congress...